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Another Stephen P. McGreevy Travel/Expedition Photo-Gallery (Page Two)

Enjoy a bit more of my photography of my travels to interesting and special places - Travel is "The Spice of Life"

Travel is the spice of life - traveling to do radio DXing is even more incredible, as is being in a "cool" location to enjoy world-wide DXing, such as I did in Hawaii, Russia and now China in Nov. 2013.

November 2013 Radio-receiving DXpedition to China:

The Great Wall - northeast of Beijing, China - 04 November 2013 - S.P. McGreevy

Radio-reception DXpedition to China - 03 to 20 November 2013 - https://archive.org/details/MediumwaveDXpeditiontoChina

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Shibaozhai Fortress (north bank Yangtze River) 14 Nov. 2013 • SP McGreevy

MW and FM radio reception and DXing in St. Petersburg. Russia: Vilnius. Lithuania: Helsinki. Finland: and Stockholm. Sweden, and in the midst (middle) of the Baltic Sea on a Silja-Line (MV Symphony) Ferry going to Sweden from Finland. Sept 2009:

http://www.archive.org/details/AmAndFmRadioReceptionInStPetersburgRussia

The Best of Hawaii Mediumwave/AM-broadcast-band DX. and many other places: Canada (4 provinces in the west), and the northern California Coast, using Beverage antennas:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheBestOfHawaiiMediumwaveamBroadcast-bandDx-86To91

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Hawaiian sunrise - Malaekahana Bay, north Oahu, Hawaii 17 November 2010 during a weeklong MW DXpedition

S.P. McGreevy N6NKS

Click Photo or thislink to go to Internet Archives site to listen to audio-files (MP3 1 of mv latest Mediumwave/AM Broadcast-band DXpedition ( 15-21 November 2010 1 to north-east Oahu. Hawaii! !

(http://www.archive .org/details/HawaiiMediumwaveDxpeditionNovember20 10) .

FM and TV DX /long-distance reception! /via sporadic-E skip and meteor- scatter! 12000 to 20091 http://www.archive.org/details/FmAndTvDxlong-distanceReceptionviaSporadic-eSkipAndMeteor-scatter

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Gorgeous Hawaiian sunrise - northeast Oahu, Hawaii (Malaekahana Bay) (again!) - 19 November 2010 during my week-long MW/AM-BCB DXpedition to Hawaii - Stephen McGreevy

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18 August 2010 - the gorgeoue great Basin region of central Nevada, USA - incredible open-road cruising in Americs'a remote outback - my favorite region of the United States - SP Mcgreevy, N6NKS

Cruising the remote back roads of America's beautiful Great Basin (Basin and Range Province) of central Nevada - 1 have been exploring Nevada back roads since 1983 - this photo is taken heading westbound on Nevada state route 844 toward Gabbs, NV, in the

Paradise Range amongst Pinyon Pines on the 18th of August, 2010 - N6NKS.

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The Great Space Center - Eastern Sierra DX spot in DM06.

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N6NKS Field Day Site - Lee Flat, Inyo County, Calif. - 27 June 2009 - 6m, 10m, 40m, 75m

N6NKS Field-Day site (DM17) - Lee Flat (Inyo Co. CA) - June 2009 - fabulous 6 meter conditions three days there with Kenwood TS-570S.

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Gorgeous Trakai Lake Castle, Lithuania - 10 Sept. 2009 - Peaceful and Tranquil

I love Felines!

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Joshua Tree National Park, California, in snow, 23 Dec. 1997 - S.P. McGreevy, N6NKS

On Loma Alta Hill, Marin County, Nov. 1995 with WR-3 Receiver.

Dfing 212 TST with Shel Remington , NI6E/KH6SR - March 1988. We found it later in Oroville , CA (northern Sacramento Valley) Airport and then it went off-air the next day because the\

it off ater a test, affording us a cool DX/DFing target! - Click link/pic to jump to NDB (non-directional-beacon) Gallery - most popular page on this site!

had 'forgotten' to switch

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march-2003 - in Mojave Nat. Preserve.

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In Glendalough, Ireland (Saint Kevin's Kitchen), May 1992 - a wonderful place to DX the LW and MW broadcast-bands. Also in Donegal in early May 1996, 1 could hear a few North American MW stations on small loop antenna and Sony portable receiver.

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Stephen P. McGreevy, 24 Nov. 2006 - Inyo County Desert near Darwin, CA

Sunset from Mt. Wittenburg, Point reyes NS, August 19923 - McGreevy - N6NKS

Point Reyes, California - Sunset in lovely silence - August 1992 - SP McGreevy

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Foggy Limantour Beach, point Reyes National Seashore from Mt. Witten burg (Inverness Ridge) Marin COunty, California

17 July 2009 - N6NKS

In the Inverness Ridge, Point Reyes, California in cool summertime coastal fog - July 2009 - SP McGreevy

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Point Reyes North Beach, California, July 2008 - McGreevy. A great place to DX excellent trans-Pacific LW and MW DX.

For a great amount of Point Reyes longwave (LW) and mediumwave (MW) DX archives, please check out:

The Best of Hawaii Mediumwave /AM) Broadcast-band DX - 86 to 91 ( 1991 ).

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Hay Farm near Twickenham, central Oregon, August 1989 - S.P. McGreevy, N6NKS

Hay farm in central/northem Oregon near Twickenham - S P. McGreevy, 8/90

Marin County, CA Fog - July 1991 - so lovely and peaceful

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St. Petersburg, Russia - a fascinating place to DX LW, MW - Saudi Arabia could be heard in hotel room on 1512 and 1521 kHz in St. Petersburg with just a loopstick antenna facing southward - unfortunately, one can't hear long-haul MW-BCB DX in the

overcrowded North American MW dial at all - not like that in Russia!

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St Petersburg, Russia - 16 Sept 2009

Stephen P. McGreevy

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Point Reye's Primordial Rainforest - 1 spent a misty, full-moonlight night in July 2008 deep within the forest - DXing all of my desert-HF radio-beacons.

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"Your Ocean Refuses No River" - Shiela Chandra

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Gail and I on VLF-oriented Canadian trip - 5,000 mi.-plus, Sept. 1993. Gail and I traveled thousands of miles taking in the vast beauty of North America, especially its northern half to record splendid natural VLF radio signals.

In the Fish Lake Valley, Nevada, on way into the White Mtns. (background) - 06 June 2010 - N6NKS

Trail canyon - lovely in the Pinyon Pine forest - a trail leads to Boundary Peak, NV.

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I enjoyed Latvia so much and took many pics there in Sept. 2009 - this link points to a paee devoted to Latvia - a very interesting small nation. SPM - N6NKS.

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Visiting Marin County and San Francisco, late Nov. 2004 (for Thanksgiving Holiday w/parents)

Natural VLF Radio Audio Files Top page at www.spaceweathersounds.com

ClField-photo of Stephen P. McGreevy, January 2003 in the south-eastern section of Death Valley National Park, California with another HF radio beacon experiment.

Stephen P. McGreevy, N6NKS, sunk in quicksand winter 2000 - south-sand-sheet Owens lake in quicksand

At this 1999-2001 field-tech, job, I had to venture out onto the Owens Mud Lake undig ATV's and other equipment out of mud and quicksand (never too deep though) in the wintertime. I was standing upon hard-pan clay lm under the quicksand's

surface!

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hike along beloved Coast Trail, Pt. Reyes NS, northern Calif., June 2003.

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Phenomenal natural radio signals accompany times of aurora and spaceweather storms - photo of Manitoba aurora, 23 August 1996 - S. McGreevy. Late-summer aurora in warm weather during the 2nd solar-minimum VLF expedition to Manitoba,

Canada.

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Incredible natural VLF Radio phenomena audible that day and earlier in Alaska's auroral-zone - this train I was on was heading south into the mountains south of Fairbanks (Alaska Range) toward Denali Peak and ultimately, Anchorage - Autumn

1995. 1 love trains.

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Owens Lake SSS, 29 Dec. 2000 - 1145 PST: Stephen P. McGreevy, air-monitoring technician taking notes, with Olancha Peak and the Sierra Nevada in the background.

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Desert Beauty in Full Moonlight

Rocky checks out the WR-3

Stephen P. McGreevy, September 2009

My other natural YLF radio at U Iowa Plasma Wave Group:

University of Iowa (thanks much to Larry Granroth! - nice gentleman - a computer whiz, a very fine American) hosts a stable, active site of a small collection of older recordings of mine, since 1996 (sometimes seemingly site-unavailable, though):

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by Elea Mideke From NORTHERN OBSERVER *10

whistlers are so beautiful! By Elea Mideke

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My Best Kitty Companion-Friend, Rocky, The Kwitain - a very talkative, intelligent Tuxedo-cat (2003 to 2016)

At the Tuttle Canyon Ashram - 13 July 2010.

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There is NO need for permission to use, in any way, shape, or form, any of my audio files (MP3/WAV) on this site for your production-audio or video/film! Absolutely nothing on this website is copyrighted but

rather is all for the public-domain, Global enjoyment and enlightenment!

All files on (www.archive.org) may be used without needing or requiring my permission - use for all anyone desires in their work, art, research reports, etc. I only ask some sort of credit is given. Stephen P.

McGreevy - J an . 20 1 8

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Please allow a lot of time for me to respond in case I am out on a very-long-term research expedition (off-grid/no Internet doing outside-research) or traveling or on a wilderness-retreat. Thank you so much!

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STEREO photo of the Centennial Hills and Ophir Mtn. near Darwin, Calif, on 19 Marrh 2015 - SPMcGreevy

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